Improvement in corn-shellers



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Patented 'April 13, 1869.

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ELISHA KE LLEY, OF LOCUST GROVE, OHIO. Letters Ptnt No. 88,790, datd April 13, 1869.

IIVEPROVEMENT IN CORN-SHELLERS.

The schedule refen'ed to in tlee Letters Patent and making part of the samet To all whom it may concem V Be it known that I, ELISHLA KELLEY, of Locust' Grove, Adams county, and State o'f Ohio, have in- Figure 2 is a side elevation.

Figure 3 is a view in detail, showing the gear-wheel, with fingers.

Figure 4 is a vertical section of the bevelled-gear wheel, giving internal view of the fingers, as indicated by line xx, of fig. 3.

Like letters in the dierent figures of the drawings, indicate like parts.

The nature of ny invention consists in the construction of a com-sheller, with elastic feed-rollers above and below revolving-fingers.

The finger-plates being provided with tongues, working in grooves, and with rubber springs, by ,means of which the necessary vibrations are Secured, to conform to the different-sized cars of corn, and arranged in and revolve with a bevelled-gear wheel.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my 'nventiou, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

- AA are rubber rollers, upon proper axles, with gear-wheels B C (see dotted lines in fig. 1) arranged above the shellers or fingers, a proper distance apart, to adnit an ear of corn.

D D are rubber rollers, similar to rollers AA, with gear-wheels E F, arranged below the fingers.

H is a bevelled-gear wheel, with a square opening in the centre, I I I I, and with slots, or grooves c a, as shown by dotted lines, in fig. 3.

K K are fingers or shellers, the plates of which are provided with tougues c c, which fit loosely, and operate in grooves a a.

L L are rubbcr springs, arranged between the fingers and the wheel H, on rods d d, which slide in the holes e e in the gear-wheel, as shown in fig. 1.

The driving-Wheel M is turned by means of crank N, and engages pinion 0, attached to shaft of bevelled wheel P, which engages and drives bevelled-gear wheel H.

Pinion B, on the shaft of driving-wheel M, eugages gear-wheel S, which is attached to one end of roller D, and dives that roller.

At the other end of the same roller is attached gearwheel F, which engages pinion Gr, which engages gearwheel 0, and that wheel engages gear-wheel B.

Wheel F also engages wheel E, and thus both sets of rollers are revolved.

Operation.

The sheller is operated by turning the crank N, and the corn is fed, endwise, between the rollers A A, which, revolving toward each other, move the cars down between the shellers or fingers K K, the revolving motion of which shells the corn from the cob, the ears being held from turning by the rollers, and

, the lower end of the cob is caught between the lower rollers, and, by them is drawn entirely through the sheller.

The fingers open and close, 'to conform to the dif fercnt sizes of the ears of corn, by means of the tongues on the finger-plates working in the grooves, and by means of the -ubber springs, as described.

I contemplate that a proper hopper maybe attached at the top, to conduct the ears of corn to the rollers in the proper position to be conveyed into the shellers or fingers.

The rollers above and below, as described, serve the two useful purposes of feeding the corn into and through the shellers, and of holding the cars from turning while the corn is being shelled, which, heretofore, had to be done altogether by hand.

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Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The elastic rollers A-A and D -D, in combination with the fingers or shellers K K, substantially in the manner and for the purpose as described.

As evidence that I claim the foregoing,1 have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses. ELISHA KELLEY. witnesses:

THOMAS BEAVERS, M. MCKEEHAN. 

